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grasshoppers which are found only among the dense 

 green grasses and sedges along the margins of ponds 

 and lowland streams. There, as long 

 as motionless, they are invisible, and 

 there they flourish in peace and 

 countless numbers. 



The .Kentucky blue-grass and the 

 different kinds of meadow grasses 

 are a darker green, and, where rank, 

 turn brown early in the autumn. 

 The different species of "short- 

 winged " grasshoppers, and many 

 others whose hues are olive green or 

 brown, find in the fallen clumps of 

 these grasses places of hiding well 

 suiting their color as well as an 

 abundance of food well suiting their 

 taste. 



At the Goose Pond, nine miles be- Fig. 67 A Pea-green 

 low Terre Haute, occurs a species of ... Grassh PP er - 



Dicromorpha viridis 



grasshopper, Leptysma marginicollis (Seudder). 

 (Serv.), which has never been re- (After Lugser ' ) 

 corded elsewhere north of Florida. Its occurrence in 

 Indiana can only be accounted for by the presence of 

 the broad and 'sheltering valley of the Wabash within 

 the confines of which it finds a climate and a vegetation 

 congenial to its wants. If its habits be the same else- 

 where as in Indiana, the name " grasshopper " is for it 

 a misnomer, for here it is never seen on the grass or 

 ground, and never hops when disturbed, but moves 

 with a quick and noiseless flight for twenty or more 

 feet to a cylindrical stein of sedge or rush on which 

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